Education
City College of New New York
City College of New New York
He played board two, behind Reuben Fine, on the victorious City College of New York team in the 1931-1932 Intercollegiate championships. Bernstein was a participant in eight United States. Chess Championship events (1936, 1938, 1940, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1959 and 1961). His career was well chronicled in his book Combat: My 50 Years at the Chessboard (New York, 1977), but he was an infrequent writer on the game and was deeply involved in only two other volumes.
In the late 1930s he co-edited with Reinfeld a book on the Kemeri 1937 chess tournament, and in 1947 the two collaborated on a revision of James Mason’s The Art of Chess.
Top players that he scored wins against were Donald Byrne, multiple wins against Arnold Denker, multiple wins against Frank James Marshall, Edmar Mednis, and Sammy Reshevsky, amongst others